Word: horror
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...streaming brightly through the curtains, and I was lying all dressed upon the sofa, when I regained consciousness. Slowly the veil that clouded my memory lifted, and I could look back at the horror and darkness of the night, which had so suddenly come to an end. But I was long in comprehending what had passed. It seemed like being in another world, with the newness of awakened life and the radiance of a fresh spring day. I rose slowly and tried to think what had happened. Then, like a lightning-flash, the truth was revealed...
...event transpired last night which has filled our peaceful community with horror and amazement. This was nothing less than the entire destruction of the street lamps of the city by a party of scoundrelly ruffians, who, there can be no doubt, are students of ??? College. President Socrates should be made to understand that the outraged community will no longer endure the criminal excesses of his students. We give the particulars of the shocking occurrence below...
...youth. But Mr. Jackson, although admired to excess by his own countrymen, was in reality a coarse and ignorant man. So was his wife, and all her relations. His daughter, too, though she had aspirations, was very uncultured and inexperienced. The polite English people looked upon her with horror not unmingled with amazement. They did not understand her vagaries; they did not know that American society is provincial...
...Professor at last broke the silence. "I could sleep no more that night: I had a repelling horror of the thought, - a fear lest I might dream again. I sat there till the cold light of dawn broadened in the east, and the moon slowly whitened away to nothingness. Then I dressed myself, and, stepping out upon the upper balcony, watched the sunrise. As the colors warmed and deepened on the hills, and the broad ocean sparkled and shimmered, - so unlike that ghostly moon-swept sea of my dream, - this sense of oppression grew less vehement, as all such feelings...
...horror! Demon, speak...